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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dont really think its a huge deal. 12 year olds look at porn. I can remember in the early 90s waiting for our AOL dial up to connect so we could type in "hard penis" in the search engine. We weren't pervy or "bad" or anything…just 12 and curious.  [/quote]

+1. I concur with this and would neither inform another parent nor wish to be informed myself. It is every parent's choice to monitor their child's use of technology as they choose, and if this was something the other child's mother wanted to know I would assume that she already knows. I wouldn't regard it as my business to monitor another child's actions or for another parent to monitor mine in this way.[/quote]

Are you joking?  Please tell me you're trolls.  Things are different today than in the early 90s.  Kids can easily see extremely violent and twisted things if they're let loose to google anything, and it's very easy to fall upon very disturbing, even traumatising things by accident, such as, for example, a 12 year old getting gang banged.  As a society we've decided to completely abdicate responsibility for what children can see, and have no limits on what's out there, so parents have a huge responsibility to set limits and be very careful.  Those of you being laissez faire about it maybe have no idea about what is out there and the impact it can have.  And by the way, 90% of it is is completely degrading to women and girls.  But hey, if you think it's cool for your pre-teen to watch girls or women who were probably sex-trafficked to get raped on video, go for it.  If you think I'm exaggerating you're sticking your heads in the sand.  [/quote]

PP here.  Let me clarify that I wasn't saying 90% of all porn is degrading to women; I was saying that 90% of what falls in the category of disturbing/traumatising/sick is, and a lot of porn is frankly violent.  I look at porn and don't have a general problem with it.  But I definitely have a problem with pre-teens watching porn and parents turning a blind eye, without making sure they're not looking at violent or disturbing content.  There is a ton of research on the impacts that watching violent porn can have on children and teens (and adults by the way) so you shouldn't just be looking the other way in an attempt to be the cool parent or whatever. [/quote]

+1 to both of your posts.

I am not anti-porn at all but some of the stuff that is out there is just way too much for a pre-teen to take in.  It's too much for me!

Looking at a Playboy/Playgirl is one thing, but some of the images and videos online are not the same.[/quote]

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